\section{Organisation Details}
\label{sec:Organisation}

\subsection{Organisers' Details}
\label{sec:OrganisersDetails}

\textbf{Moussa \textsc{Amrani}} (primary contact) recently obtained his PhD from University of Luxembourg. His work focuses on formal semantics and analysis of model transformations languages. He is currently a Post-Doc at University of Namur, Belgium, where he targets Domain-Specific Languages with real-time features, with a specific interest in the \textsc{Marte} profile. He regularly serves as a reviewer for several venues related to modelling, model transformations and their analysis (\textsc{EcmFa}; \textsc{MoDeVVa}; \textsc{VaST}; \textsc{Icst}; \textsc{Isarcs}; \textsc{Amt}); but also international journals (\textsc{SoSyM}, \textsc{Jss}, \textsc{Entcs}). Moussa co-organised most of the \textsc{Volt} editions (except the first).

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\textbf{Eugene \textsc{Syriani}} is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montreal.
His current research interests are model transformation, model-driven engineering methodology, simulation-based design, and code generation for mobile technologies.
Eugene received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011 and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2006, both at McGill University.
He pursued post-doctoral research at McGill University in 2011 working on the NECSIS project on the foundations of model transformations.
He was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama from 2011 to 2014.
Eugene has organized several international workshops/conferences such as MPM'11-12, ME'11, VOLT'11-14, MODELS'13 workshops, and SummerSim'14-15.
He also served on the program committee of several conferences and as reviewer for a wide range of international journals in the fields of MDE, software engineering, and simulation.

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\textbf{Manuel \textsc{Wimmer}} is postdoctoral researcher in the Business Informatics Group (BIG) at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He has been a research associate in the Software Engineering Group at the University of Malaga in 2011/2012. His current research interests comprise model engineering in general and model transformation testing, verification, reuse, and evolution in particular. He is/was involved in several national and international projects dealing with the application of model engineering techniques for domains such as tool interoperability, versioning, and Cloud computing. He is coauthor of the book Model-driven Software Engineering in Practice (Morgan \& Claypool, 2012) and coauthor of more than 130 scientific articles published in international conferences (e.g., TOOLS, MODELS, ASE, ICMT) and journals (e.g., ACM CSUR, SoSyM, JSS, JOT, ASE, TSE). He has served as workshop co-chair for ICWE'12, track co-chair for ICWE'14, poster co-chair for MODELS'14, and organized MDWE'13, VOLT'13-14, and CMSEBA'14.


\subsection{Workshop Program Committee}
\label{sec:WorkshopProgramCommittee}

Following is a tentative Program Committee.
%: persons marked with an asterisk ($\confirmed$) already confirmed their participation for this edition.
Several of the proposed members have been part of the PC of the previous editions of the \VOLT workshop.

\begin{small}
\begin{itemize}
	\item M\'ark Asztalos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
	\item Dider Buchs (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
   \item Jordi Cabot (INRIA, France)
	\item Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada)
	\item Antonio Cichetti (Malardalen University in Vasteras, Sweden)
	\item Beno\^it Combemale (University of Rennes, France)
   \item Krystof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo, Canada)
	\item Juergen Dingel (Queens University, Canada)
   \item Claudia Ermel (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
   \item Holger Giese (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany)
	\item Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen, Germany)
	\item Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, USA)
	\item Esther Guerra (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid, Spain)
   \item Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
	\item Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
   \item Marouane Kessentini (University of Michigan, USA)
   \item Dimitrios S. Kolovos (University of York, UK)
	\item Akram Idani (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
	\item Kevin Lano (King's College London, UK)
	\item Leen Lambers (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany)
	\item Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid, Spain)
   \item Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
   \item Tihamer Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, USA)
	\item Levi L\'ucio (McGill University, Canada)
   \item Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
	\item Matteo Risoldi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
	\item Rick Saley (University of Toronto, Canada)
   \item Martina Seidl (University of Linz, Austria)
	\item Shane Sendall (Snowie Group SA, Switzerland)
   \item Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universit\"at Marburg, Germany)
	\item Antonio Vallecillo (Universidad de M\'alaga)
	\item Hans Vanghelhuwe (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
   \item D\'aniel Varr\'o (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
	\item Stephan Weissleder (Fraunhofer Institute FIRST, Germany)
\end{itemize}
\end{small}

\subsection{Merging}
\label{sec:Merging}

Given the other workshops held in \STAF in the past years, we do not see any obvious candidate to merge with \VOLT.
We therefore prefer not to merge, although open to discussion if necessary.
